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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
May. 16, 2007 | 08:43 PDT | 15:43 UTC
Mixed feelings on the lunar funding situation
My friend InterplanetSarah has some thought-provoking things to say about the current situation with the funding for NASA's lunar robotic program. That program was pared down to an orbiter (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, to be launched in 2008) and... More»
May. 15, 2007 | 12:29 PDT | 19:29 UTC
Tvashtar erupting -- the movie
UPDATE: I had to correct some errors in this post -- thanks to Jason and Eric for pointing them out!
I practically fell out of my chair when I saw this movie.Tvashtar in motionIn this amazing animation from the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter, the... More»
May. 15, 2007 | 11:54 PDT | 18:54 UTC
A little rover repair
One of the hundreds of items on my list of things to do has been to repair the LEGO model of the Sojourner rover that sits in the Mars Station here in our little conference room at The Planetary Society. This little rover can be driven over the... More»
May. 14, 2007 | 10:04 PDT | 17:04 UTC
Update on the Mars Science Laboratory site selection process
Mars Science Laboratory is repeating a highly successful process performed for the Mars Exploration Rovers, in which the entire scientific community -- not just the mission's science team -- has been offered the opportunity to provide input into the... More»
May. 11, 2007 | 16:14 PDT | 23:14 UTC
Itokawa: Gravel slides in near-zero gravity
Itokawa, the asteroid visited by Hayabusa, is really, really tiny. In fact, it makes a nice bridge between the scales of natural objects in the solar system and manmade objects in the solar system. Here are Itokawa and the International Space... More»
May. 11, 2007 | 08:22 PDT | 15:22 UTC
One of the coolest amateur astronomy photos I've ever seen
A while back, I posted a really cool image of the Space Station transiting the Moon, and since then I've seen another pretty neat image of the Space Station transiting the Sun. But this one takes the cake. We're not seeing the Space Station in... More»
May. 10, 2007 | 13:35 PDT | 20:35 UTC
Digging in to the Galileo Earth flyby data sets
UPDATE: When originally posted, the second animation on this page was running backwards. It's now been corrected so that it runs forward in time. Sorry for the error!
When I was working on the page of images of Earth from planetary spacecraft, I... More»
May. 9, 2007 | 12:07 PDT | 19:07 UTC
Fire in Griffith Park
This morning I walked outside to the familiar odor of a campfire and the familiar haziness in the air that signify a wildfire here in southern California. Checking the news, I found this amazing and scary photo on the AP newswire:Click to enlarge... More»
May. 9, 2007 | 08:08 PDT | 15:08 UTC
More fun with Hayabusa data: 3D and color images
The data from the Hayabusa mission were released in a format called FITS. There are free software tools out there for anybody to download who would like to work with the data in this format, but that's a bit of a hassle, and it adds a stumbling... More»
May. 8, 2007 | 15:26 PDT | 22:26 UTC
Movies from two levels in Venus' clouds
These are the most interesting image products I've seen come out of Venus Express so far -- they really reward close investigation. What we are looking at is an animation of the motion of Venus' atmosphere around its south pole. The two colors,... More»
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